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Xie Lei - Conversion, 2025 - Oil on canvas

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love looping a song. Awwww the songs over…… SIKE!!!!!!!!!!

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anybody else love pulling the plug on ugly patients? 😹

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this genuinely made me giggle

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HELP TRANSGENDER SUDANESE REFUGEES IN GOROM CAMP!

hi guys, i'm writing this on behalf of @muhshinmagala Magala Muhshin (Said), who is in Gorom camp, South Sudan.

i've posted and reblogged posts about her campaign before, but i wanted to make a new one so everyone could be up to speed, because she is in DIRE need of help, and her campaign is totally dead in the water right now.

Magala reached out to me about a week ago, asking me for help, via tumblr. while i was at first cautious, i wanted to hear her out, because i perused her account and saw all the pictures she posted, and all the information about her situation that she shared. i asked if she could give me something to verify her story, and not only did she show me identification, but she actually video called me on whatsapp. i saw her face, i spoke to her, she let me hear the stories of some of her fellow LGBT community members within the camp, and she walked me around the perimeter of the refugee camp, and all the way to the entrance, where i saw with my own eyes the sign for the Gorom refugee camp.

in the camp, they lack almost everything one might need or want to live life at the most bare minimum of levels. when i spoke to them, they told me they hadn't eaten for a week, and the week before that, all they could find to eat was banana peels. their camp members are frail and slender, some of them are beginning to lose hair and have their skin texture change due to malnourishment. it's heartbreaking. water is difficult to get as well, especially considering how many members of their group are sick, either with HIV or cholera. their shelters are incredibly makeshift, and not only that but due to their gender and sexual identities, people come by and rip their shelters up. other camp members who aren't LGBT single them out and assault and abuse them. one of their camp members showed me her cracked, broken, and chipped teeth from the last time a group of people attacked her when she was outside. they even lack beds to lay their sick on, and mosquito nets to protect them from getting further diseases. they have a baby in their group, only 2, who was so badly burned recently that the burns extended past her skin into her internal organs and needs surgery, but the only hospital that will help them with the burns (or even with the medicine required for treating HIV) is very expensive. you can see images and videos of this on her account, and on the website i linked above.

this is a real campaign, these are real people. they have stories to tell, and they want anyone to listen to them. where they are there is no support, none of them can get jobs because they are so heavily discriminated against. several of them have been beaten, and are in need of latent medical care, like the trans woman i spoke of above, who is in pain every day from her broken teeth. many of them are HIV positive and are in dire need of ARVs, but have no food or water to take them with, which is a requirement in the state their bodies are in, and no money to purchase the $500 ARVs with. one member told me of his struggles as a trans man, and how frustrated he was with his life. he told me he was so tired, and i could tell he just wanted somebody to listen to his story. this was recurring with all of their stories -- they just want support. they want somebody to listen. they're all so burnt out from their struggles that it's impossible to support one another fully.

one person told me that when their family in kenya found out they were gay, they tried to take them to the police. they had to flee to sudan, which they thought would be safer, but they ended up immediately in the camp, and have been abused and neglected since then, unable to find anything else to go to. so many people had stories of assault to tell me. it broke my heart. these people need our support so, so badly.

i'm writing this post out, with all these links, so you can see and hear the stories that i have seen and heard. this is heart breaking. they need money NOW to save the baby, to save themselves, just to eat. please, please, please reblog, share this, donate as much as you can. we need to help these people -- they're our brothers, our sisters, our siblings.

thank you for reading.

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Freshwater Pearl Necklace Raffle for Gaza fundraisers with low donations (worldwide shipping!)

Guess who made more accessories using freshwater pearls during the holiday!

This raffle aims to support Gaza fundraising campaigns with LOW donations! And I'm shipping worldwide this time!

To enter, donate to any fundraisers that fulfill both of the below requirements:

1) A fundraiser that has raised less than €10K/ $10K USD/ £8K GBP/ $14K CAD/ kr110K SEK/ kr110K NOR at your time of donation

2) A fundraiser from the following lists:

@/gazavetters vetted list

Vetted list by @/el-shab-hussein, @/nabulsi and Mohammed Ayesh

Fundraisers reblogged by me (@a-shade-of-blue)/ My list of vetted fundraisers that have reached out to me (basically all the fundraisers I have reblogged are on this list)

Donate a minimum of €5/$5/£5/kr50 to enter the raffle! Each €5/$5/£5/kr50 counts as an entry, so if you donate €10, you will be entered twice.

Submit your entries through this google form!

The deadline for entering this raffle is 31 March, 2025. 

Submit your entries through this google form to enter the raffle!

tagging for reach; reply for removal; thank you so much!!

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@timetravellingkitty @briarhips @ankle-beez @akajustmerry @wellwaterhysteria @rhubarbspring @decolonize-the-everything

@postanagramgenerator @watermotif @appsa @neptunerings

@buttercuparry @bixels @afro-elf @officialspec @omegaversereloaded

@sporesgalaxy @pigswithwings @certifiedsexed @tpwrtrmnky @closet-keys @extremelycursedimages

@medusadyke @punkitt-is-here @whatcoloristhatcat @rickybabyboy @weirdmarioenemies

@tamamita @beetledrink @apas-95 @autisticmudkip 

@prisonhannibal @genderdog @geekydragon @comrademango @amvs

@p0pp3t @t-800 @tethys-saturnalia @anghju @sniffingcinnamon

@sunnylittledragon @dyspunktional-leviathan @linkedsoul @jewfrogs

@balaclava-trismegistus @avi-wings @fleshdyk3 @innovatorbunny @truffleskies

 @not-a-hawk @indignantdessertbirds @ropes3amthoughts @slagginbitch @rob-os-17

@virovac @misted-buttercup-enjoyer @shykino @saltycharacters @2bu

@strangestcase @darkmatterblade @turtletoria @murderbot @pretendingtobeaperson

@pikslasrce @omtai @carfuckerlynch @aristotels @toesuckingoctober

 @bearie @lesbiandardevil @hjarta @doubleca5t @wuntrum @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness

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scariest movie scenes

1. every appearance of a ghost in pulse 

2. the hallway scene in inland empire 

3. the deleted fire walk with me scene where bob enters Laura through the fan 

4. the end of the vanishing 

5. the entire end scene in [rec] where they have no lights 

6. when crossley does the shout in the shout 

7. when Beatrice Dalle is having sex with the man in trouble every day and his moans turn into screams 

8. the crow pecking on Katherine’s breast in the witch

9. the tall man behind the door in it follows 

10. the spider head from the thing 

11. the nanny’s suicide from the omen 

12. dinner in Texas chainsaw massacre 

13. the disappearance in picnic at hanging rock (9:38)

14. when pipes possesses Michael Parkinson at the end of ghostwatch 

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I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

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hairclips by crazy netizenz

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every single article, post or mention of a Muslim or Latino person on a Visa or Green Card getting dragged off the street by masked men in broad daylight has the same exact comments: "wow, they're gonna start doing this to citizens soon." some of these people have lived here since they were 8 months old and have lived here for over 30 years. it's very telling that Americans are still are managing to separate them in their head from a "citizen" and that their outrage will be far greater when it's someone who "actually lives here" as if 3 decades in the same country shouldn't qualify you for the same rights as everyone else.

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**giving you bad dick** yeah you dislike that bitch?

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Please donate to the Alhaw family. They are #12 on @/el-shab-hussein’s list. Three generations of the family, including young children, are depending upon these funds to survive. And if you are religious, please keep them in your prayers. It is a dangerous time in Gaza at the moment.

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do you think a cornered mouse would dream of cheese

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South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Committee's new report reveals some of the fabrications and falsifications that allowed 20,000 children to be adopted out abroad and names some of the agencies responsible.

In the decades after the Korean War, South Korea earned the reputation as the world's biggest baby exporter, with some 220,000 children sent to Western nations.

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wtf how is it midnight

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deadbeat daughter

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doing crosswords on coke I feel like the wolf of wall street